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| | Confederate States of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The Confederate States of America ('''CSA''', also known as the Confederacy) was the political entity originally formed on February 4, 1861 by six southern slave states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana). |
 | | In 1863, during the war, a unionist rump legislature in Wheeling, Virginia seceded from Virginia, claiming 48 counties, and joined the United States as the state of West Virginia, with a constitution that would have gradually abolished slavery. |
 | | The Confederate military leadership was almost entirely composed of veterans from the United States Army and U.S. Navy who had resigned from their U.S. ranks and had been appointed to senior positions in the Confederate armed forces. |
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